Researchers from the Earlham Institute, in collaboration with the Department of Biology at the University of Oxford, have ...

In 1897 Russian physiologist Ivan Pavlov proved that animals can be trained using associative learning. A new study finds ...

A growing body of peer-reviewed research is building the case that single-celled organisms, creatures with no brain, no ...

Every plant cell is the product of a biological merger billions of years ago. Chloroplasts are key structures in plants and ...

Researchers have created the first living synthetic bacterium made from non-living parts by killing a bacterial cell and then ...

Existing bacteria and archaea still our universal common ancestor’s ribosomal hibernation defense mechanism when nutrients ...

A single-celled organism shows Pavlovian learning, challenging our assumptions about the origins of cognition.

Peptide science has expanded rapidly in recent decades, revealing molecules with intriguing signaling roles that may influence diverse regenerative and organizational processes within an organism.

Explore Toxoplasma, a common parasite affecting one-third of the population. Discover how new imaging techniques aid research ...

As the generations dragged on past the 27th iteration, the birth rate began to silently collapse. By the 57th generation, a mere 0.6 percent of the cloned embryos survived. The 58th generation ...

The tree’s telomeres – the protective “caps” on the ends of chromosomes that stop their charge from fraying or breaking down, ...

It infects nearly one-third of the global population, yet its microscopic size makes the Toxoplasma gondii parasite difficult ...